Material from the surface of a planet can be ejected into space by a large impact, and could carry primitive life forms with it. We performed n-body simulations of such ejecta to determine where in the Solar System rock from Earth and Mars may end up. We find that, in addition to frequent transfer of material among the terrestrial planets, transfer of material from Earth and Mars to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn is also possible, but rare.

The impactor that created the Chicxulub crater and caused mass extinction on Earth ~ 65 Myr ago (Schulte et al. 2010) likely launched about 7 × 1011 kg of rock into orbit, of which about 20,000 kg (~7 × 10-10 of the impactor's mass) could have reached Europa. For a single impact of this size, the probability of a fragment > 3 m reaching Europa is 0.6

So life from the time of the dinosaurs (probably just extremophile bacteria) may have been transferred to the moons of the Outer Planets.

Recover from diverticulitis?_________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

So this app is like my new favorite thing. It's like a super simplified version of Poser and is completely fantastic for art purposes. I know there are some super talented artists around here that could get some use out of it._________________Samsally the GrayAce

The tedium of producing up to 24 individual drawings for every 1 second of footage is often, much like the pain of childbirth, conveniently forgotten to ensure the survival of the medium.

Classical Animation, Sheridan College

Ahahaha oh geez it's true.

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Studies show the American War on Drugs is a racist, counter-productive supplement to white capitalist prison economies—and will therefore continue.

Criminal Justice and Criminal Investigation, Keystone College

Oh snap

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The patriarchy sucks and lesbians are awesome.

Media Studies, Pitzer College

Hear hear! (*cough*Nique and Absinthe*cough*)

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Taught a computer to paint portraits by understanding cognitively (vision, perception, process) how human artist’s paint and used that system to scientifically prove Rembrandt was a cognitive genius at controlling your eye path to tell his narrative.

Interdisciplanary Studies ( Computer Science, Cognition), UBC

I wish this had a link to the thesis, this actually sounds really interesting.

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such pulsating stars. very cosmic distance scale. mid-infrared wow.

Astrophysics, Pomona College.

Jesus fuck

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Fox News is lying to us with graphs.

Graphic Design, University College Falmouth

Pretty sure not just with graphs.

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i am so sick of exploitation honestly it’s such a drag can everybody just stop it

Ethnic/Gender Studies, St. Petersburg State University (semester-abroad program)

would be nice

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American literature focuses on naming a lot, because names are important.

English, Mount Holyoke College

Which makes my dilemma of sort of not having a proper name extremely annoying and a little depressing.